Gearing for washing-machines



(No Model.)

G. C. HARLI'N.

GBARING FOR WASHING MACHINES. No. 367,039. Patented July 26, 1887.,

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE O. HARLIN, OF HEDRIOK, IO\VA.

GEARING FOR WASHING-MACHINES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 367,039, dated July 26, 1887.

Application filed July 21, 1886. Serial No. 208,657. (No model.)

T 0 MM whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE O. HARLIN, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at Hedrick, in the county of Keokuk and State of Iowa, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Gearing for Vaslr ingMachinesmf which the following is a specifieation, reference being bad therein to the accompanying drawings.

This invention pertains to certain new and useful improvements in gearing for washing machines; and it consists in the construction, combination, and arrangement of the parts, substantially as hereinafter fully set forth, and particularly pointed out in the claim.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a cross-sectional View of my invention, and Fig. 2 is a detail view thereof.

In carrying out my invention, I secure to the upper outer surface of the lid or cover A of an ordinary tub or receptacle, B, a flat horizontal plate, a. From one end of said plate is an upwardly-projeeting overhanging bracket, a, to the upper and lower ends ofthe overhanging portion of which are rigidly secured or made integral therewith two oppositely-projecting cylindric sleeves or collars,a'-. These sleeves or collars are apertured or hollow in their central portion, corresponding to a vertical aperture or passage formed in the overhanging portion of the bracket a, the purpose of which will now appear.

0 is a vertical shaft, upon the lower end of which is rigidly secured an ordinary agitator, G, and this shaft is passed through an aperture or opening formed in the center of the lid or cover and the fiat horizontal plate a, and up through the sleeves or collars and the overhanging portion of the bracket a. This shaft has rigidly secured thereto, between the flat horizontal plate a and the lower sleeve or collar, a small pinion, b, and a similar pinion, b, on the extreme upper end thereof, the same resting on the upper outer end of the upper sleeve or collar. These pinions b b are designed to be alternately engaged by a semicogless wheel, D, secured upon the outer end ofa shaft, D, the extreme end of said shaft resting in a small opening or aperture formed in the front surface of the overhanging porh tion of the bracket a. This shaft is also supported nearits outer end in a shalt-bearing or standard, (I, integral with the flat horizontal plate a, and said shaft has an ordinary crankhandle, d, secured to its outer end. A small collar, d, having a set-screw, W, is secured on the shaft D, immediately adjacent the shaft bearing or standard (I, to regulate the adjust:- ment of said shaft.

From what has been said it will be seen that by turning the crank-handle the cogged portion ofthe wheel D will be caused to gear alternately with the pinions Z; I), thus causing the movement of the vertical shaft and its agitator first in one direction and then in another.

I am aware that it is not new to provide a washing machine with two oppositely disposed semi-cogless wheels alternately gearing with a single pinion on the agitator-shaft; but my invention is designed as an improvement over such a device, and by employing but one semicoglcss wheel and two pinions on the agitator shaft I greatly reduce the weight of the mechanism necessary to the accomplishment of the desired result, and the device is not as liable to get out of order, owing to the few number of parts employed, as is a machine of the construction above outlined.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The combination of the bracket having the sleeves or collars, the vertical shaft, the pinions secured thercon, the semieogless wheel, and the horizontal shaft having its end resting in said bracket, all arranged substantially as shown and described.

In testimony whereof I {IfllX my signature in presence of two witnesses.

GEORGE O. H ARLIN.

IVitnesses:

J. T. Baoons, W. H. YOUNG. 

